RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator) - Peter Pan ... A New Edition, London, [1912], 4to, 50 mounted coloured plates ([?]lacks half title), original pictorial cloth gilt. With 2 other books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, both FIRST TRADE EDITIONS. (3)

RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator) - J. M. BARRIE (1860-1937).  Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens ... A New Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. 4to (272 x 210mm). 50 mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations, some full-page, map of Kensington Gardens (lacking half title and/or a front blank). Original green pictorial cloth gilt, plain brown endpapers (some staining, spine faded). Provenance: Elsie Wild (large child's signature and address at the head of the list of illustrations). This revised edition contains a new mounted coloured frontispiece by Rackham dated 1912, a new title page design, and more illustrations in the text which did not appear in the first edition of 1906. In addition, the 1912 edition has the coloured plates distributed throughout the text, whereas the first edition usually has the plates bound together at the end. Latimore & Haskell p.40; Riall p.74. With 2 other books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, namely William Shakespeare's A Midsummer-Night's Dream (London, 1908, 4to, 40 mounted coloured plates by Rackham, lacking the list of plates, original pictorial tan buckram gilt, FIRST TRADE EDITION) and de la Motte Fouqué's Undine ... Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney (London, 1909, 4to, 15 mounted coloured plates by Rackham, original blue pictorial buckram gilt, FIRST TRADE EDITION). The lot sold not subject to return. (3)